High in the bare branches of a tree at the edge of my meadow, a female pine warbler paused just long enough for me to take her picture. / PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...

I try not to get jaded about my backyard birds, but sometimes I find myself thinking "just another cardinal" or "I’d love to see something more exotic." Most of us already have a spectacular array of ...

LOVELLS, MI – Decades-long strategies to protect Michigan’s most famous songbird may be shifting. Members of the Kirtland’s warbler conservation team recently witnessed proof that although jack pine ...